ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA 
The chief wealth of the Rororo language consisted in 
its nouns. Like all savage languages, it was wonderfully 
rich in botanical and zoological terms. The gender was 
formed by a suffix, the masculine differing from the 
feminine. 
There were in the Rororo language three genders, 
masculine, feminine, and neuter. The masculine was 
formed by adding the words chireu, cun, or curireu, to 
the noun; the feminine by the suffixes chireuda and 
curireu da. There were many words which were used 
unaltered for either gender. In the case of animals, the 
additional words me do, male, or are do, female, clearly 
defined the sex, in specific cases where the names would 
otherwise be ambiguous. Inanimate objects had no sex, 
and were therefore neuter. 
Most nouns had a plural as well as a singular, but 
there were exceptions to this rule, such as names of certain 
plants and animals, the sky, the wind, etc.; not to count 
things which were generally taken collectively, such as 
flies, ruque; macaw or macaws, nabure, etc. 
The plural was made by the suffixes doghe or maghe 
-—the maghe being used principally in possessive cases, 
such as tori-doghe, stones; padje-maghe, our mothers. 
Exceptions to this rule were the words ending in bo, co, 
go, or mo, to which the suffix e was sufficient to form the 
plural; whereas in those terminating in do or no, ro, or 
other consonants, the o was suppressed and an e placed in 
its stead. Example: jomo, otter, jomoe, otters; cuno, 
parrot, cune, parrots; apodo, or tucan (a bird), apode, 
tucans, etc. 
There were a number of irregular exceptions, such 
as aredo, wife; areme, wives; medo, man, ime, men. Per¬ 
haps the most curious of plurals was ore, sons, the singular 
of which was anareghedo (son). 
The words ending in go generally formed the plural 
with an interchangeable ghe. 
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